![]() “She told me she was a call girl, but she wasn’t working that night.” Miami Velvet prohibits prostitution on the premises, a point that is emphasized in the four-page single-spaced legal waiver that everyone must sign to be admitted. (Miami Velvet is B.Y.O.B., to avoid the trouble of securing a liquor license, so Stone had brought along a bottle of the brand p.i.n.k.) “We were just having a casual conversation, and I told her I was a dentist,” Stone said. “She was sitting right over there,” Stone told me, pointing to a seat at the bar, as we sipped vodka from plastic cups. So what happened at Miami Velvet one night last September, he said, amounted to a gift. “He always tries taking credit for things he never did.” Like Nixon, Stone is also a great hater-of, among others, the Clintons, Karl Rove, and Spitzer. “Roger is a stone-cold loser,” Trump told me. Stone worked for Donald Trump as an occasional lobbyist and as an adviser when Trump considered running for President in 2000. Over the years, Stone’s relationships with colleagues and clients have been so combustible that his value as a messenger has been compromised. Stone believes that Nixonian hardball, more than sunny Reaganism, is John McCain’s only hope for the Presidency. ![]() While the Republican Party usually claims Ronald Reagan as its inspiration, Stone represents the less discussed but still vigorous legacy of Richard Nixon, whose politics reflected a curious admixture of anti-Communism, social moderation, and tactical thuggery. Still, it is no coincidence that Stone materialized in the midst of the Spitzer scandal-and that he had memorable cameos in the last two Presidential elections. Even then, though, Stone regularly crossed the line between respectability and ignominy, and he has become better known for leading a colorful personal life than for landing big-time clients. At times, mostly during the Reagan years, he was a political consultant and lobbyist who, in conventional terms, was highly successful, working for such politicians as Bob Dole and Tom Kean. Miami Velvet is the leading “swingers’ club” in Miami, and Roger Stone took me there to explain the role he may have played in the fall of Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York.įor nearly forty years, Stone has hovered around Republican and national politics, both near the center and at the periphery. From there, some of them go into a lounge, a Jacuzzi room, or one of about half a dozen private rooms to have sex-with their dates or with new acquaintances. ![]() But a flat-screen television on the wall plays porn videos, and many clubgoers disappear into locker rooms and emerge wearing towels. A sign inside the front door of Miami Velvet, a night club of sorts in a warehouse-style building a few minutes from the airport, states, “If sexual activity offends you in any way, do not enter the premises.” At first glance, though, the scene inside looks like a nineteen-eighties disco, with a bar, Madonna at high volume, flashing lights, a stripper’s pole, and a dancer’s cage. ![]()
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